Authorities say a student pilot was killed and his instructor was injured Wednesday when their single-engine plane struck power lines as it was landing at a rural east Mississippi airport.

on June 13, 2013 Source: WLBT 3 Jackson

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"God knows how somebody trusted me with an aircraft and my own life," William said of his flight in a propeller-driven trainer. "I was doing a few circuits going round and round then Roger my instructor basically turned round and said,...

"This hurts. He was my roommate for six years of my life, my hitting instructor and my best friend. He let me be me, but he was also the guy who kept me in at night," longtime teammate Joe Pepitone said.